"Impressive-a perceptive and rigorous structural analysis." -David Montgomery, Nation
"One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written-brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched." -Village Voice
"One of the most trenchant and original analyses of American politics." -Socialist Review
Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.